I met my girlfriends daughter

After a three-hour drive to Nagano, his girlfriend left him at McDonald’s while taking her nine- year-old daughter to juku. Meeting the daughter over dinner, he found her energetic, talkative, funny, and easy to engage, reversing his anxiety about children. He enjoyed Nagano’s open mountains, defended his immaturity against commenters, and planned an early Shinkansen trip to meet another friend.

Anxious anticipation reverses into enthusiasm, reinforcing the relationship and defiance toward warnings from outsiders.